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02/12/2024

Here's my first sketch from Saturday morning in Leeds with , I should have a few to show from Friday afternoon, but those plans were thwarted by a nightmare five hour drive (it should have been one hour). It was surprisingly warm compared to the previous day and hand warmers were not deployed. I loved this grotty building and enjoyed sketching it. It's a shame about the rather violent blue background but I battled on with it bravely.

Swipe for progress pictures.

19/11/2024

Here are my sketches from Jazz at the Moor Club on Sunday evening. I posted a quick flick through in a reel yesterday. All drawn on location with mostly a vintage Mont Blanc Meisterstück 149 fountain, a lovely bit of kit, but I'm not sure it's liking the Platinum Carbon Ink I'm using with it.

The grey was added at the time and the touch of watercolour on the last spread added at home along with the white lettering. The raffle tickets were stuck in later after not winning me a prize!

11/11/2024

It was a gloomy day for November meet-up at the weekend, so I took myself off to a warm cafe near HOME which was our meeting point. Time was short, inspiration was also short as I faced a looming Hotspur Press on what I consider a tricky perspective (I am very perspectively challenged) but I channeled the numerous ‘idiot’s guide to perspective’ videos I’ve watched and had a go. I didn’t want to get my paints out on my tiny table so used pens and ink. It’s all done on location apart from the stamped lettering.

Platinum Carbon Pen - Sailor Fude fountain pen - white gel pen - Sennellier ink-brush

04/11/2024

Here's what I sketched while out and about with @ on Saturday. I was pleased to find on a quiet backstreet, it was literally right up my alley. It was my first chilly sketch of the season so I was very chuffed when the owners(?) popped out for a chat and came back out again with a welcome hot and hand warming coffee!

I had to add the last finishing touches at home as my fingers were cold, the paint still damp and it was throwdown time. You can see how far I got on location to compare with the final sketch by scrolling through the images.

Watercolour - fine liner - Platinum Carbon pen - white gel pen

Prints of my sketches coming soon!

01/11/2024

I sent the last day in Rome on my own, starting on my own doorstep in Trastevere where I found a nice quiet street. That didn’t last for long as my chosen spot was on the circuit for a vintage-scooter-and-sidecar tour which went round a couple of time and they looked very impressive! I had a play with the ink filled brush pen I’d bought a couple of days ago as it was a just the right(ish) colour for my subject. When I finished my first sketch, I wandered back towards the city centre to explore the old Jewish quarter which was wonderful, with many interesting back streets and more kosher restaurants that I’ve ever seen. While in the area I stopped at a tiny shop in a piazza, for some gelato, I had two scoops, gianduia (raw chocolate and hazelnut, which was totally delicious) and crema limone e curcuma (lemon cream and turmeric which was a rather strange green colour, and interesting if not delicious!). I sat at one of their tables watching the goings on at a rather flamboyant fountain of bronze turtles before heading off again. ��I ended up perched on the base of a statue in a little square off a busy road wanting to make one last sketch but failing to be inspired. Smokers came and perched next to me so I went to the other side of the statue and found a perfect trattoria displayed and ready for the evening, just asking to be sketched. Despite a gaggle of little boys having the time of their lives chucking handfuls of conkers around just to my right, I managed to concentrate and get on with it. I was running out of time to get back over the river, so the sketch was unfinished to be completed at home. When I looked up the restaurant a few days later I found that had quite a history which was pleasing for my final sketch in Rome - it would have been lovely to have had a meal there!

31/10/2024

I wandered off on my own on the morning of Day 4 as I wanted a bit of a change of pace from the ‘big sites’. I mooched over the river to the wonderful Testaccio food market which at the early(ish) time I arrived was more for locals than tourists with beautiful and delicious looking produce of all varieties. I wandered around the area which had a nice ‘Sunday Vibe’ with local couples/families/dogs out in abundance. I perched on a low wall to sketch a bit of a domestic rooftop with plenty of aerials and vents, there was a Peroni bottle top next to me which was added along with a curly street lamp. From here I found myself in the courtyard of some old apartment buildings and as nobody seemed to mind me sitting there, sketched a sunny shuttered window before heading back to the market for some lunch.��The later afternoon was spent back in Trastevere to meet everyone else in the bustling Piazza di Santa Maria where I collapsed in a heap in the shade to sketch the elegant facias in front of me while a wedding happened at the church in the corner. It was lovely to see the beautifully dressed guests departing and managing their perilously high heels on the cobbles!

30/10/2024

Day three sketching in Rome started off with heading to another of the ‘big locations’ - The Spanish Steps which as expected was swarming with people doing very silly things involving fountains for selfies. As is traditional, I didn’t draw the thing we were there to draw but instead backed away from the terrifying Steps to perch with a few other sketchers on railings around The Column of the Immaculate (which we learned all about from the numerous tour groups who kindly stood in-front of us). We sketched the very attractive far end of Piazza Di Spagna over the heads of the thronging masses. We were treated to a very jolly and somewhat unexpected performance by a very finely dressed brass band who must have been sweltering in their impressive outfits. ��After a very nice lunch I found a beautiful and what counts for quiet square in Rome and sketched what I later found out to be a rather classy hotel - perhaps for my next visit?!

29/10/2024

On our second morning in Rome headed to The Vatican, which was just as impressive as I was expecting. Despite it being before 10am the famous queue was already snaking its way through the square with crowds of people, and more nuns and priests than I think I’ve ever seen in one place! Being adverse to drawing monuments/massive crowds/being burned alive, I pottered off to the back streets with some other similarly minded sketchers and we found a nice quiet spot by a pretty water fountain (one of the best things about Rome for me, was the endless supply of free flowing and very delicious water on almost every street). We were entertained by a rather colourful local performing some sort of ritual which I’m sure meant something to him as well as some stylish locals wandering by. I had a little time after the fountain so found a shady spot on a quiet corner to do a quick sketch of some road signs before we went back to the even more busy St Peter’s Square for our throw down.��After lunch and I wandered round in circles as we failed to find somewhere we liked and finally settled to sketch this lovely door to the Di Castro Synagogue. We had a visit from a couple of driving by policemen asking us what we were doing and all continued well until we realised that we were being bitten by some unreasonable tiny black biting things so we swiftly packed up and rushed off (forgetting to take a progress photo). We settled in a very pretty garden full of ancient stuff to recover from the excitement…

28/10/2024

What do you sketch on the first session of your first day of a sketching holiday in Rome if not the Colosseum? It may be a teeny-tiny little Colosseum - but it's there! It was ragingly busy as you can imagine and a little overwhelming but quite amazingly I found, along with my sketching companions xx a remarkably un-crowded spot on a viewing platform on the edge of The Forum. I say 'un-crowded' rather than 'quiet' because we were surrounded by what sounded like every electric-violin playing busker in Rome to fuel our creativity. None of us ever want to here Adele again...

After lunch I sketched a fraction of the imposing Palazzo Senatorio on the stunning Capitoline Hill and was well rewarded at the end of the day with our traditional ‘drink and draw’ before heating elsewhere for a typically Roman feast of Cacio e Pepe with good (quantity of) red wine a bit later - and then gelato!

17/08/2024

Here's something a bit different from my recent holiday in lovely Cornwall - I used a tiny Stillman and Birn grey sketchbook and found that I enjoyed using it very much! It made me think differently and I like the dramatic effect of using the whites for more than just highlights like I usually do.

15/07/2024

Out and about on the canals with Manchester Urban Sketchers. We started off at Paradise Wharf where I couldn’t find anything I liked enough to spend time on, so I wandered further along the Ashton Canal tow path and found a little notch in the wall where I’d be out of the way of the bikes/dogs/wheelie cases/drunks/England fans and I looked towards before our first throwdown. I collaged the grey corrugated shed and the wooden planking and mainly used pens.
After tasty Leon lunch at the incredibly busy Piccadilly Station I pottered to New Islington and plonked myself down outside with some other sketchers and drew what was right in-front of me - a bit of a barge and a lifebuoy. I enjoyed using the slightly taller sheets of paper which is much nicer for watercolours than my usual concertina book.

Thanks Simone for organising us and pointing us in the right direction along the canal!

12/07/2024

Batch two of photos from a visit to Folkestone, this time in July 2024.

These were taken on a pre-breakfast wander on my first morning. It was very windy and occasionally sunny!

Unusually for me, I shot in Jpeg with a ‘recipe’ (an in-camera preset used in Ricoh cameras, there are dozens available). I wanted to make easy and quick to edit images with a much more processed slightly vintage/filmic look than usual. It was fun and I’m pleased with the results!

Ricoh GR3 / JPG / Manual / Lightroom / Photoshop

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